Game Thread 2022-23 Game #49 - BLAZERS VS RAPTORS - JANUARY 28, 2023 - SATURDAY - 7:00 PM (PDT) ROOT

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  1. blazerkor

    blazerkor Well-Known Member

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    Punting on this season the game after we saw our guy score the most efficient 60 in the history of the NBA is not an option. We need to strike while the iron is hot and act with urgency like Dame implored the team to do before he went and won a gold medal. We can't fucking wait. Joe has to do everything he can do right now and then in the off season we make even more moves.
     
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    The whole “tanking” strategy is stupid, in my opinion. Especially tanking two years in a row. There have been too many flops in the Top 10, and too many equally good players later in the first round, to make it a viable strategy for improving a team.
     
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    See why I want to tank? What’s the point of losing 3-4 in a row, then winning 1, losing 3 in a row, the winning 2 in a row, then losing 5 in a row, then winning 1, then losing 2 in a row, etc

    why ya like this shit? True definition of mediocracy
     
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    We’ve been waiting for several years. All we ever get is a rearranged deck of the same ol’. I doubt a 60pt performance is going to make a difference now
     
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    It looks a bit like we are tanking... whether we are sitting people or not.
     
  6. KingSpeed

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    Lillard isn’t retiring next year. He’s going to be a great player for the next 5 years at least. A seasoned Sharpe and Wemby could win a title with Dame in 2027.

    What kind of star player are you looking for? I mean we got Grant. He was on Team USA. Sharpe could be the best player we’ve ever had and BEFORE Lillard retires. They could win together.
     
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    Maybe not, but what’s your point? It’s just as stupid to talk about winning a title as it is to talk about getting Wemby.
     
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    And I meant Sharpe and a pick as PART of the package. Like Ant, Sharpe, and a pick for OG. That’s prob available for us but it would be terrible for our future.
     
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    Btw please do not pay Grant what he thinks he’s owed! PLEASE!


    It’s pointless
     
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    Mediocracy has to do with social constructs and economy but nothing to do with basketball, so please stay in your lane and by in your lane, I mean park. This team isn't good enough.
     
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    It sounds like you're not factoring in contract values and lengths, which I believe are things GMs consider in accepting trades. My opinion is that we can always say a GM could've got more or that the GM got the best deal available. There is equal proof that both/neither are true.

    Also, if you believe all the Jerami Grant rumors from a year ago, he was basically part of the CJ trade. I don't think the difference talent wise between Grant and CJ is that great.

    I didn't love the Payton move. Though the lack of cap flexibiltiy didn't seem like a big deal given our ownership.
     
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    I can't wait until we have new ownership.
     
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    You think we’re a move away from winning a title THIS year? All we have to do is punt one more time, make a good trade, get a better coach, make WCFs next year with more talent and win it all in 2025. Dame isn’t dying tomorrow. The fact that in his 11th year, he can still score 60, it means he’s gonna be great for awhile. Also- we don’t have to win during Dame’s “peak.” Look at Jason Kidd. He wasn’t an All Star in 2011 but he was very good and helped that Dallas team win a title.
     
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    You’re a dreamer, I’ll give you that. However, your dream is based on some very risky bets:

    That Lillard will still be great in four years
    That Sharpe will turn into a complete NBA player
    That we get Wemby in the lottery

    I’d say we’ll be lucky if just one of the above turns out to be true.
     
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    The funny part was when the Blazers cut the lead down to 4 but within seconds the deficit extended to 15. Lol that’s how u know this season has been a joke
     
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    Were not getting wemby so stop bringing it up. :)
     
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    The draft is a very viable strategy. Curry, Klay, and Dray were all acquired through the draft. In 2018, Cuban got in trouble for telling his players to tank. Guess who they got out of that draft? Luka Doncic. Fuck we got Dame by cleaning house and trading a very good player for a pick in that year’s draft. Top free agents don’t sign with us. Stars don’t force their way to us. The best way to get meaningful talent around Dame is the draft. And if we make the fucking playoffs, Chicago gets our pick!!! I gave our team 49 games. They’re 23-26. They’re not good enough. Not even the fans can push them over the top. We’re mediocre to bad at home.
     
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    IMO, if we properly tank, we have a much better shot at getting an NBA star in 2023 draft than we do of winning a title in the 2023 playoffs. So I vote tank.

    I mean it doesn’t matter what I want. As you will see over the coming weeks, teams like the Clippers and Warriors will start to pull away from the crowded middle and our chance of making the playoffs will end without tanking. But a proper tank would increase our odds. Why not choose that option?
     
  19. AldoTrapani

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    Wow I’m still shocked by this dude. You use to be the biggest Homer of all time…

    Good for you man
     
  20. CJ_is_Gone

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    Because the shortest guys can't guard a traffic cone.
     

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